2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,231 370 8.2 7.2- 9.2 3,861 91.8 90.8-92.8
Medicaid Region 6 468 55 10.8 8.0-14.4 413 89.2 85.6-92.0
GENDER
Male 210 36 16.2 11.3-22.6 174 83.8 77.4-88.7
Female 258 19 5.6 3.3- 9.2 239 94.4 90.8-96.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 311 46 14.9 10.7-20.2 265 85.1 79.8-89.3
Non-Hispanic Black 96 *** *** *** 90 96.0 90.4-98.4
Other 58 *** *** *** 55 94.2 82.4-98.2
AGE
18-44 164 *** *** *** 155 94.0 88.0-97.1
45-64 153 13 7.7 4.3-13.5 140 92.3 86.5-95.7
65+ 146 33 22.9 15.7-32.0 113 77.1 68.0-84.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 160 21 12.2 7.7-18.9 139 87.8 81.1-92.3
Some Post-H.S. 131 17 12.0 7.0-19.7 114 88.0 80.3-93.0
College Graduate 174 16 6.9 4.1-11.5 158 93.1 88.5-95.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 148 23 13.1 8.0-20.6 125 86.9 79.4-92.0
$50,000+ 206 22 10.3 6.5-16.0 184 89.7 84.0-93.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 114 *** *** *** 104 91.2 83.3-95.6

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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